Through partnering with community organizations, businesses, and local and regional agencies, we achieve so much more than going alone. Here are a few highlights of 2025!
The Auburn Symphony and Placer Land Trust collaborated for the second year with a “sold out” free event, Symphony Under the Sky. Several hundred guests wandered the trails at Laursen Bear River Preserve, enjoying a variety of genres from musician ensembles tucked in the trees, while picnicking in the meadow, and soaking up the benefits of nature.
The United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) of Sacramento and Northern California has incorporated our “Ramble & Roam” children’s program into their annual programming. UCP families enjoyed an outing on our preserves complete with an observant trail and waterway walk, leaf-boat races, and nature sketching.
For a few years, Cali Trail Seekers has arranged private hikes for their participants who come from all over the greater Sacramento region. This year, after a fantastic evening hike under the full moon, their organizer eagerly accepted our invitation to become a volunteer hike docent with us. Read more here…
Our partnership with Placer Artists Tour continues to deepen. In 2025 they hosted two plein air and photography events on our preserves, after which artists profiled their work in the annual Natural Wonders Art Show at General Gomez Arts gallery in Auburn. The show perfectly highlights the connection between art and the outdoors.
We have the need to remove invasive plants from our Canyon View Preserve in Auburn; corporations and other community organizations have the desire to give back. Our perfect solution for groups of any size: a half-day “Broom Battle” workday or site adoption as a “Habitat Hero” to remove the broom at their own pace and schedule. We had a record number of groups who participated this year, including HPE, Sons in Retirement Auburn, Target Food Distribution Center, Criterion Systems, DaVita Kidney Care, and Southside Unlimited.
Partnership enabled us to expand the capacity of Placer Land Trust and the Colfax-Todds Valley Consolidated Tribe’s FLICKER crew to implement prescribed burning. Working collaboratively with the Colfax-Todds Valley Consolidated Tribe and the Sierra Nevada Alliance, we hosted a cultural burning workshop that educated participants from several nonprofit organizations about the benefits of prescribed fire as a land management tool, its cultural significance, and the practical steps involved in preparing and conducting a burn. The project was funded by the Rose Foundation.
